Finance Manager - Deputy S151

Salary: £65,000 - £67,000

This is a Permanent Full Time position

Do you want to develop your career? We are looking for a talented individual to join us within our small Finance team.

We are based in the beautiful Brocks Hill country park in Oadby and this part of Leicestershire is a great place to live, work and visit. Our council is a great organisation to work for, we offer a competitive salary and fantastic benefits including great holiday, flexi-time and the generous local government pension scheme. Agile working allows employees to work flexibly to balance their home and work needs. You can find more information about our benefits here https://www.oadby-wigston.gov.uk/pages/employee_benefit

The Finance Team are responsible for all areas of income and expenditure of the Council, ensuring it is all accounted for accurately and efficiently.

The Finance Manager will lead and develop the finance team providing comprehensive financial and accountancy services to support the Authority at a corporate level. They should have experience compiling the statutory year-end Statements of Accounts, a good understanding around capital and the sources of funding for a HRA and General Fund capital programme and knowledge of a typical council budget setting process and how to produce a council budget including the funding elements, Council Tax, NNDR, Government grants, Reserves and other income sources.

If you are a CCAB-qualified accountant, with experience of compiling the statutory year-end financial statements, a good understanding around capital/sources of funding for an HRA and General Fund capital programme and knows a typical Council budget setting process and how to produce a Council budget we would love to hear from you. You can find out more by viewing the job description and person specification.

A DBS check is required for this post.

This role is a politically sensitive role.

At Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, we are proud of our diversity and recognise the value this brings. We are fair and inclusive and welcome applications from people with different backgrounds.

We guarantee an interview with anyone who either has a disability or is a reservist/veteran and meets the criteria for this role if you apply under our guaranteed interview scheme.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements where possible and encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process.

Please contact Colleen Warren (Chief Finance Officer) at colleen.warren@oadby-wigston.gov.uk for any informal enquiries.

There may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

To apply for this role you must complete our online application form https://myaccount.oadby-wigston.gov.uk/service/OWBC_Job_Application_Form (CVs will not be accepted)

If you have not heard from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage of the recruitment process.

Closing date: Monday, 21 April 2025